As much as simply mentioning that "Black Lives Matter" shook white America, it's amazing that now, some people have come up with a new campaign regarding their whiteness. Not because white people are being killed by police at an alarming rate, or because they want to be treated equally. Rather it's seeming because they want to maintain their "superior" status. 

According to a report by The Washington Post,  posters proclaiming “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” have been appearing on college campuses and on city streets across the country this week. The idea was started by an anonymous chat room comment, all with the purpose of feeding social unrest and swaying white Americans to far-right ideologies.

The Post details that since Tuesday, the posters have been spotted in Rocky River, Ohio; Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn.; Tulane University in New Orleans; Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md.; around college-campus rich Cambridge, Mass., including the Harvard Yard and at the University of Alberta in Canada. In most cases, schools and cities have pulled the posters down, but the message has continued to spread in images and hashtags across Twitter and other social media platforms, even prompting a related Know Your Meme entry detailing its Internet origins and cultural backstory.

Antics like this kill the idea that racism will "die out." White nationalists use college campuses to help recruit for their hate groups. Their thought process is that they can counter the push for diversity with white-nationalist groups making every effort to counter that with well-dressed, tech-savvy and articulate spokesmen who recast equality and cultural sensitivity as a damaging loss for white Americans. 

“Whites inside various supremacist groups and movements believe, and have for a long time, that they are part of a victimized racial group,” said Nicholas Valentino, a political scientist and research professor at the University of Michigan’s Center for Political Studies. “Far right, white nationalist, neo-Nazis, and their ilk have always had this sense of aggrievement, the zero-sum mentality that says as other groups gain rights or options and opportunities from which they have been excluded, whites necessarily lose and this can not be tolerated. But research, my research, and several other initiatives suggest that the white sense of victimization, and by that I mean the perception of victimization, has been increasing dramatically since Obama’s election. At this point, it’s not a majority of whites, but it has grown dramatically outside those extremist groups.”

Sure, there's nothing wrong with being white. There is something wrong with using it to suppress other people which is exactly the intent.

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